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The Provincial Grand Master Of Tasmania.
THE PBO OF TASMANIA ,
Isr another page We publish an exceedingly temperate letter , from Bro . Ewing , the Bro v . Grand Master for Tasmania , in . reply to some rem ^ ks of o ^ of Lodge No . 781 , in the Jfyeernti 10 th of March last , We lay this letter before our readers with great pleasure , though ; we regret tbat we cannot do aU that our K
the "whole of the correspondence which took and -Bro . Toby , together with his dispatches to the ( Mmd . Secretary— - for were we to do so , it would occupy some dozen numbers of the Freemasons' Magazine , whilst it could not now serve any good purpose / the whole question having been heard and decided by Grand Lodge j and . though that decision was against our opinion , we , as Masons , are hound to acquiesce in it .
Bro . Ewing complains that our opinion was founded on ex parte statements , and not from a perusal of the whole correspondence . To this we have only to reply , that it was founded on the correspondence as published ; and we had no reason for believing , nor do we now know / that any portion of it had been suppressed . Our complaint of the decision arrived at by Grand Lodge was , that no
time had been given to the Brethren to examine the despatches of Bro . Ewing , upon which the statement of the R . W , Deputy Grand Master was based . We cannot agree that Masons other than those belonging to Eo ' . 781 j , resident in Hobart Town , had no right to express an opinion upoii the proceedings of Bro . Ewing ; though perhaps , as being unconnected with any Lodge ; it might have been better had they abstained from doing go .
If we have erred in any of our observations ? it originated in the whole case not having been laid before us , and we may say , before the coniplaining Brethren of IJobart / JFown- ^ -who of course could not know the contents of despatches forwarded by Bro . Ewing to the
Grand Secretary in England ( unjess indeed he furnished them with copies , which he does not say he did ) , and to have made use of which would indeed hare been having recourse to epc parte evidence , though on the opposite side of the question to that which we supported . TOL . v . ' 3 1 >
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The Provincial Grand Master Of Tasmania.
THE PBO OF TASMANIA ,
Isr another page We publish an exceedingly temperate letter , from Bro . Ewing , the Bro v . Grand Master for Tasmania , in . reply to some rem ^ ks of o ^ of Lodge No . 781 , in the Jfyeernti 10 th of March last , We lay this letter before our readers with great pleasure , though ; we regret tbat we cannot do aU that our K
the "whole of the correspondence which took and -Bro . Toby , together with his dispatches to the ( Mmd . Secretary— - for were we to do so , it would occupy some dozen numbers of the Freemasons' Magazine , whilst it could not now serve any good purpose / the whole question having been heard and decided by Grand Lodge j and . though that decision was against our opinion , we , as Masons , are hound to acquiesce in it .
Bro . Ewing complains that our opinion was founded on ex parte statements , and not from a perusal of the whole correspondence . To this we have only to reply , that it was founded on the correspondence as published ; and we had no reason for believing , nor do we now know / that any portion of it had been suppressed . Our complaint of the decision arrived at by Grand Lodge was , that no
time had been given to the Brethren to examine the despatches of Bro . Ewing , upon which the statement of the R . W , Deputy Grand Master was based . We cannot agree that Masons other than those belonging to Eo ' . 781 j , resident in Hobart Town , had no right to express an opinion upoii the proceedings of Bro . Ewing ; though perhaps , as being unconnected with any Lodge ; it might have been better had they abstained from doing go .
If we have erred in any of our observations ? it originated in the whole case not having been laid before us , and we may say , before the coniplaining Brethren of IJobart / JFown- ^ -who of course could not know the contents of despatches forwarded by Bro . Ewing to the
Grand Secretary in England ( unjess indeed he furnished them with copies , which he does not say he did ) , and to have made use of which would indeed hare been having recourse to epc parte evidence , though on the opposite side of the question to that which we supported . TOL . v . ' 3 1 >